Opera 11 Beta Released, With Extensions Support 142
An anonymous reader writes "Opera 11 Beta has just been released and now includes support for extensions. Also new in this release Tab Stacking, Visual Mouse Gestures, performance improvements, new installer, and much more. Even with its many new features, Opera 11 is 30% smaller than Opera 10.60. That means that Opera downloads more quickly and installs in fewer steps. There are over 130 extensions and climbing including NoScript and AdBlock! Extensions can be found here."
Extension not exactly needed for adblock (Score:5, Informative)
Opera had adblocking built in for a long time, it just needed a list [fanboy.co.nz] - yes, somewhat more basic (much more basic script blocking also there); but even with rare updates of the list I don't remember having to use GUI website element blocker.
Re:adblock extension (Score:3, Informative)
Isn't Chrome a WebKit browser?
Re:adblock extension (Score:3, Informative)
It's not about hosts [fanboy.co.nz], and could give you at least most of what you want. JS can be whitelisted and disabled by domains, that's a bit more than all or nothing.
As for you list (at least when it comes to those with descriptive names) - page zooming and fit-to-width works in Opera also for images, there was some weather widget and also way to put forecasts in the Speed Dial IIRC, downloader has a bit more features than is typical (maybe list of files on a given page and filtering, by chance? Similar with cookies) and sync is built-in - shared across different versions of Opera (Desktop, Mobile, Mini)
Re:Finally another usable browser (Score:2, Informative)
Ignorance is bliss. Opera's content blocker has been around for many years.
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
Re:adblock extension (Score:5, Informative)
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/does-your-browser-behave.html [chromium.org]
^only about js, but it's quite characteristic and from a fabulous source.
Standards compliance of course might be a problem here and there, in places still not far from "best viewed in IE" - some pages unfortunately settled on "best in IE and FF" instead of targeting standards, not much of an improvement - but it's getting better. Especially where there's strong third or even fourth major player, as in most of CIS / ex Warsaw Pact (where BTW Opera is often actually at or near the top)
In fact, one funny thing: I keep an old version of Opera (9.27, a solid "classic" release) on an old dual PII 266 that I keep around and still boot sometimes. Lately many pages tend to work much better in it (despite obviously not targeting such old release, probably not even Opera generally) - I suspect due to dropping focus on IE6.
Has anyone mentioned ad blocking yet? (Score:2, Informative)
- The new Tab Stacks feature is almost what I've wanted for some time, needs some more depth to it (labelling, pinning, and loading sessions as stacks in particular), and to undo the wonkiness introduced to the tab bar behavior in general
- Nice to see Opera join the Extensions party, but slim pickings so far, need to see what gets developed for it to measure its worth.
- While the Mouse Gestures overhaul/visual feedback is a nice idea, it currently forces a much more rigid input of the gestures than what anyone seems to be used to.
Re:adblock extension (Score:5, Informative)
Opera 10.50: 78 failures,
Safari 4: 159 failures,
Chrome 4: 218 failures,
Firefox 3.6: 259 failures and
Internet Explorer 8: 463 failures.
Re:Too little too late? (Score:5, Informative)
>>>I don't think that Opera is ever going to be anything better than that "Weird browser which few people use" - not on desktops anyway.
And yet everyone keeps copying ideas from Opera:
- tabbed browsing.
- "paste and go" in the address bar
- Opera Link (bookmarks stored online)
- Opera Turbo (speeds-up phone connections)
- Live Bookmarks
- Speed Dial (copied by Chrome)
- and on and on.
Opera is the innovator that everyone else copies.
Re:adblock extension (Score:5, Informative)
That's not Opera's fault. The web-developer looks at the browser code, sees "Opera", assumes it's a non-compliant browser, and then feeds it trash. Trash-in / Trash-out. It's the developer's fault.
It's also why Opera features "mask as firefox or IE" to trick the web-developer to feed proper code. Then it renders perfectly. I've found several pages that failed to render or gave me an "Opera not supported" feedback, but never found a page that refused to render properly after I used the "mask" option.
Opera passes all the ACID tests, which is more than Firefox 3.6 or IE8 could claim.
Opera Slashdot! (Score:5, Informative)
Everyone always forgets the best feature of Opera; typing /. into the link bar is a shortcut to Slashdot!
Re:Opera on Linux (Score:4, Informative)
Re:adblock extension (Score:2, Informative)
Two best browsers on the 'net - Chrome and Opera. Hands down. The others aren't even close. Not Webkit nor Gecko based browsers. And IE is just a special case all to itself - a reminder of a bygone era when standards didn't matter.
You know that Chrome is based on Webkit, don't you?
Re:It's not just about extensions... (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know about Opera but almost all browsers support the "middle click" to open a link as a background tab. Try it..
You can also close any tab by middle clicking it. It's great.
You can turn FLASH on (BY SITE, not just globally) (Score:1, Informative)
"I personally get by with Opera the 'Enable Plug-Ins' checkbox placed on the status bar and turned off by default. This stops any flash ads. This works for me as I follow the 'Ad blocking hurts the websites you love' approach, and its the flash ads that are the really annoying ones - YMMV." - by rishistar (662278) on Wednesday November 24, @05:51AM (#34329196) Homepage
One nice thing is, that IF you need to use FLASH (or any other addon, or javascript, etc./et al)? You can set what you have GLOBALLY for all websites, and yet you can also MAKE EXCEPTIONS too, so you have sites where you can use various addons or javascript etc.!
Additionally, it's VERY SIMPLE/EASY to do!
You do this simply by right-clicking on the webpage involved, and choosing the popup menu item "Edit Site Properties" where you can set an "exception" and allow whatever you WISH to allow, albeit for that site only (or others you choose to do this too). This aids security, especially in today's FLASH, Bogus Addons, & maliciously javascripted website ridden world today online...
APK
Re:LastPass (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It's not just about extensions... (Score:3, Informative)
Never control-clicking. Middle-click... otherwise I have to use two hands.
Re:Extension not exactly needed for adblock (Score:2, Informative)
Whenever there is something asking for a plugin, Opera will display a place holder and only load the object (and only that object) when you click it. No need to reload or anything.